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j > s. In the evolution of the Greenland group of dialects the shift 

 / > s appears to have been of special importance. In a great 

 many words the dialects west of Davis strait have_7, which has 

 grown into voiceless c*? in Greenland.^ 



1 The original sound may still be traced in some words of the dialects of Ammassalik {kijcarma I 

 alone; -hajik [sufilx] bad) and of Smith sound (Thalbitzer I, 192, 215). 



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